Yummy home-made butter!

Lieselathome

5 years ago

“Be careful not to over whip the cream or you’ll end up with butter!” Ever heard that phrase? I have, and I’ve certainly told my kids enough times. Now – what if we actually do “over whip” that cream today?

Let’s make delicious home made butter!

This is a fun little experiment that will not only fascinate kids (and grown-ups!) but it is also pretty impressive to be able to put home-made butter on the table. If you’re a bread lover, I can’t imagine anything better to go with that fresh bread. In my family the butter ends up on steaks, fish, or even better – on cooked vegetables.

You’ll need:

A bowl and a hand mixer (electrical whip)

250 ml (1 cup) full fat cream

¼ teaspoon salt

and optionally herbs, spices and / or garlic

It takes about 5 minutes to make butter and this is how you do it:

Pour the cream into the bowl

Add salt and possibly herbs / spices

Start whipping – and keep whipping

The cream will go from fluid, to creamy, to very creamy and then for a long time nothing really happens. Just keep whipping! Eventually the cream will turn grainy and soon you’ll see that a fluid separates from the grains.

When the fluid appears, take a spoon and press the grainy stuff to the side and try to get as much fluid out as possible. Empty out the fluid and press a bit more. You will finally end up with smooth butter. Either roll this into a bit of parchment paper or keep in a small glass or bowl. Store in the fridge.

And lastly a garlic version with half a clove chopped garlic and about a tablespoon chopped fresh parsley.

All three turned out great! Next I will try black pepper and lemon zest…. Yum!

Enjoy!

Text and photos by Lisa Fuchs, May 2014

Lisa normally writes about healthy and creative baking, under the name Liesel on her blog: lieselathome.com You will never find sugar or gluten in any of her recipes and most of them are also lactose free.